Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 12, 2018

Found mine in a glass of juice! Didn’t survive.

There were six channels.

(Later), my first remote control had a cord, and plugged in.

My wife said she needs to hide the remote control every now and then so I will give the room a good cleaning.

I remember the first tv we got after we got married. We had company visit who were ragging on us about not getting a tv with a remote. I remember pointing to my ex-wife and saying that the day I’m too lazy to tell her to get off her fat butt to change channels is the day I stop watching tv all together. Next think I knew it was Tuesday …

The remote? Who has just one remote? one to turn on the tv, one to adjust the surround sound and one for the roku.

Okay. I can turn on the tv with the roku remote, but I still need the other one to turn it off.

They should at least have up and down controls for the times you have to be searching for the remote.

Three channels, one in color sometimes.My parents got their first color TV two years AFTER I went into the Navy out of high school. Four channels at that time with PBS.

Is he saying that there was no reason to have the horizontal/vertical buttons to begin with?

Holy crap, that is an old set. Vertical and Horizontal hold?

I hate that all the plugs and bottoms are on the back too Jimmy.

First TV I saw was my grandmother’s. Had a six inch screen with a big oil filled magnifier in front. You could see the scan lines on it. There was one channel and it shut down from noon to one p.m. They figured no one watched at lunch. Also signed off with the national anthem at night from about 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

A much more rational time.

This could have made a perfect Rose is Rose strip.

Is that Hoss?

My dad would call my brother or I to come downstairs to change the channel so he would not have to get out of the recliner!

When my parents got their first remote (wireless) they left it ON the TV, so they had to go to the TV each time they wanted t use the remote.

More things no longer seen: TV repairmen, tubes, and tube testers in SuperX (a drug store chain at the time)

I’ve at least found an on and off button on ours.

Forgot about the volume control sharing a knob with the power switch.

Every TV has 3 available remotes: The factory remote that came with the TV, The universal remote that came with the cable service, The universal remote app on the smart phone.

I don’t miss those days. my first flat screen came in a box the size and weight of a car radiator. It replaced a 27 in tv that was like moving a floor safe. Like the line from the Billy Joel song said: “Cause the good ole days weren’t always good. And tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems”

I had 4 channels growing up. Now we have none. Dvds are all we have here Like Gunsmoke, Lucy, Andy Griffith, Beaver, and Bat Masterson, Walton’s, and Little House. We do have a collection of John Waynes best western movies, along with other 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s westerns. But we still have to have three controllers. One for the tv, one for the sound bar, and one for the DVD player.

Had a TV in the ’80s that would change channels by itself when a thunderstorm approached. Apparently the remote sensor could see and react to lightening visible through the window.

Our old B & W TV had vertical & horizontal knobs that we had to keep adjusting to get a good picture. The first color TV’s had red,blue & green knobs you had to adjust to get the color right. Things are easier now with all that preset!

No tv for the past three years . . . and no plans to get one.

My father (in Montreal) put up a fifty foot antenna in the backyard, free standing and anchored in concrete, so he could pick up stations in Vermont and New Hampshire. He had a remote control to turn it in different directions to pick up the signals. If we were lucky we got a clear one, but mostly it was snow. This was in the 60’s.

We have a TV in the garage (needs to go to recycling), because the remote no longer worked and there were NO manual controls. Bought a new remote, no love. Current TV has manual controls and a remote.

I really miss the big satellite dish, you could get any channel for pennies. Now I have to pay big bucks for the small satellite to get the few channels I want and hundreds that I will never watch.

And don’t get us started on the old “rabbit ears.”

Our first remote was our daughter when she was very young. I think it’s how she learned her numbers

Growing up in the 70’s & 80’s in CA, we had 6 channels, rabbit ears. You wanted to change the channel, you got up and walked to it to turn it.

Shortly after getting married, the first thing my bride and I bought on time was a breand new 19" Zenith color tv with a Channelmaster rotating antenna. We even got a monthly payment book. $15.75 a month. Man, now THAT was a long time ago. (early 70’s for those counting)

Boy, we really had it rough,eh? And, we had to MANUALLY change the record and flip it over to hear the other side.

I’ve never lost my remotes. They go in the same place every time and they are there when I want them. Never lost my car keys either. It’s a simple system.

After a while looking for a remote, found it in the refrigerator. Worked fine. At that time, we were using Roku (now we have a smart tv) and it was the Roku remote that was in the fridge. Luckily, Roku has remote app so we just downloaded it from the app store on our phone so we could still control the Roku during the days the remote was lost.

My dads first TV remote had sound bars. One turned it on and off the other changed the channels. When I came home I would flip my keys on the key ring. The TV would change channels, drove my old man crazy.

Ummmm, I think somebody forgot the volume on that TV.

My parents bought their first TV in 1950 – a Magnavox. They say up watching it, until Mum poked Daddy and said, “Russell, it’s broken already!” They’d both fallen asleep and the station had just gone to raster. I still have the solid mahogany cabinet; took out the “guts” and use it was a book case.

The first 6 months my wife and I were married in 1981 we did not have a TV, then one of my inlaws neighbors had an old 12 " black and white set that lasted for 10 years. When that died, our land lord’s brother in law used to work for the Conrad Hilton hotel in downtown Chicago as the TV repairman, and he gave us an old 25" color consell that still had tubes. That one lasted 5 years until the picture tube failed and we bought our current Sharp TV in 1993, still works great.

dont forget the old vacuum tubes that would heat up the ole box pretty good too.